Kenneth Binks

Who is Kenneth Binks?

Kenneth C. Binks was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a lawyer by career.

He represented the Ontario riding of Ottawa West during the short-lived 31st Canadian Parliament after winning the seat in the 1979 federal election. He lost the 1980 election to Cyril Lloyd Francis of the Liberal party.

Binks made two unsuccessful attempts to enter Canadian Parliament in 1965 federal election at the Russell riding and in 1968 at Ottawa—Carleton riding.

His family has lived in the Ottawa area for 125 years and were members of the business and professional community for 4 generations. He was educated in the public and High Schools of Ottawa. He attended Queen's University and graduated with Honours in Modern History and completed graduate studies for Master of Arts. He tutored in the History Department.

In 1949, he attended Cambridge University where he studied Law and completed his legal studies at the University of Saskatchewan in 1952, and admitted to the Bar of Saskatchewan in 1953, and in Ontario in 1953.